Associate Professor Wendy Burgers PhD (Cambridge)

Division of Medical Virology

Associate Professor, Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology and Full Member, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UCT. Former Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellow in Public Health and Tropical Medicine and EDCTP Senior Fellow.

Wendy Burgers' research group focuses HIV-TB co-infection. They are studying how HIV affects the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in HIV-TB co-infected individuals, both in blood and at the site of disease, the lungs, with a focus on adaptive immunity. They also study the immunology of HIV pathogenesis, seeking to understand how immune hyperactivation results in ineffective immunity and drives progression to disease.

The work in the laboratory is funded by the Wellcome Trust, the NIH and the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Platform (EDCTP), with additional local funding from the SA Medical Research Council, National Research Foundation and the PRF.